Collectibles

This may the only way for some of us

Want to get into the Hall of Fame?

J-E-W-S, Jews, Jews, Jews!

Football season may be over, but…

The things we keep

The things we keep: The Israel Baseball League Yearbook

Here’s something you don’t see every day

Now wear this.

Calling all phila… and phitel…stamp collectors

Re: the recent World Jewish Hockey Tournament in Israel
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The State of Israel has managed to send national teams to Junior and Senior International Ice Hockey Federation Championships for the past decade, despite the fact that it has only one regulation rink in the entire country. The ice surface, built by Canadian patrons, is [...]

Baseball beach reading

Looking for some good beach reading? Try some of these baseball novels with Jewish themes or characters. A word of warning: some of these titles are long out of print, but you can find them on used book sites, such as Amazon.com.

I may be wrong, but I doubt you’ll find too much adult fiction about [...]

A way-cool source

Every issue of the classic publication is available through Google books.
The first issue: July 1945. Cover price: 15 cents. Tag line: “64 Pages — and Every Word Baseball!”
Thanks to John Zajc of the Society for American Baseball Research and writer Rob Neyer for the item.
The next step is to go through them all for Jewish [...]

It’s never too hot for flannel

Even in this sweltering NJ heat.
Just received a flyer from Ebbets Field Flannel, a company that specializes in replications of old baseball jerseys, hats, etc.
Here’s one that I hope will be hanging on my wall some day:
Product description:
1920 Philadelphia Hebrews Road Jersey
Independent team
Exact reproduction of the 1920 road jersey
100% navy with white pinstripe wool baseball [...]

The Jewish Major Leaguers 2009 card set: A “critical” analysis

Hey, to some, baseball cards are a critical subject.
The fifth set of cards produced by JewishMajorLeaguers continues to improve on its self-appointed theme.
Card #1: Intro card, describing the set as the “Record Setters” Edition
Cards 2-5: All-time roster of Jewish Major Leaguers
Cards 6-7: Career batting leaders (including home runs, runs batted in, hits, and batting average) [...]

You can’t Topps this

I’ll trade you two Ryan Brauns for a Bernie Madoff:
2009 Topps Allen & Ginter shipping in June will include an insert that features the “world’s biggest hoaxes, hoodwinks and bamboozles,” including disgraced ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff.  The cards feature 20 perpetrators of some of the most notorious pranks, dubious claims, and outright frauds of the [...]